NAME
rmadison -- Remotely query the Debian archive database about packages
SYNOPSIS
rmadison [OPTIONS] PACKAGE ...
DESCRIPTION
dak ls queries the Debian archive database ("projectb") and displays
which package version is registered per architecture/component/suite.
The CGI at http://qa.debian.org/madison.php provides that service
without requiring ssh access to ftp-master.debian.org or the mirror on
merkel.debian.org. This script, rmadison, is a command line frontend to
this CGI.
OPTIONS
-a, --architecture=ARCH
only show info for ARCH(s)
-b, --binary-type=TYPE
only show info for binary TYPE
-c, --component=COMPONENT
only show info for COMPONENT(s)
-g, --greaterorequal
show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >= {highest version}' info
-G, --greaterthan
show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >> {highest version}' info
-h, --help
show this help and exit
-s, --suite=SUITE
only show info for this suite
-S, --source-and-binary
show info for the binary children of source pkgs
-t, --time
show projectb snapshot and reload time (not supported by all
archives)
-u, --url=URL[,URL...]
use URL for the query. Supported shorthands are
debian or qa http://qa.debian.org/madison.php
bpo http://www.backports.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
debug http://debug.debian.net/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
ubuntu http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi
(the default)
See the RMADISON_URL_MAP_ variable below for a method to add new
shorthands.
--version
show version and exit
--no-conf, --noconf
don't read the devscripts configuration files
ARCH, COMPONENT and SUITE can be comma (or space) separated lists, e.g.
--architecture=m68k,i386
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are
sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables.
Command line options can be used to override configuration file
settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose.
The currently recognised variables are:
RMADISON_URL_MAP_SHORTHAND=URL
Add an entry to the set of shorthand URLs listed above. SHORTHAND
should be replaced with the shorthand form to be used to refer to
URL.
Multiple shorthand entries may be specified by using multiple
RMADISON_URL_MAP_* variables.
RMADISON_DEFAULT_URL=URL
Set the default URL to use unless overridden by a command line
option.
NOTES
dak ls also supports -r, --regex to treat PACKAGE as a regex. Since
that can easily DoS the database ("-r ."), this option is not supported
by the CGI and rmadison.
dak ls was formerly called madison.
The protocol used by rmadison is fairly simple, the CGI accepts query
the parameters a, b, c, g, G, s, S, t, and package. The parameter text
is passed to enable plain-text output.
SEE ALSO
madison-lite(1), dak(1).
AUTHOR
rmadison and http://qa.debian.org/madison.php were written by Christoph
Berg <myon@debian.org>. dak was written by James Troup
<james@nocrew.org>, Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>, and others.